A nearly middle-aged con artist left a loving family in Brazil devastated after she posed as a desperate 12-year-old abuse victim in need of adoption, according to Brazilian authorities. Amanda Maria ...

On top of the continuing political drama taking place at the Senate, a dash of rumored Charter change (Cha-cha) has been added to it by newly installed Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano. A few days ...

The company hosts events for trading card, anime, gaming and pop culture enthusiasts across the U.S. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor MARI, the holding company founded by Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, is ...

The latest in our series of writers on their most important comfort films is a celebration of Nicolas Cage’s finest action moment It’s easy to poke fun at Nicolas Cage. Between the meltdown memes, ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

The San Diego Comic Con has quietly updated its policy to ban AI-generated art, 404 Media reports, providing a major victory to artists. The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive ...

Con Edison has agreed to sharply scale back proposed rate hikes for electric and gas customers in New York City and Westchester County. Under a new three-year agreement, a previously proposed 11.4% ...

Con Edison has agreed to cut proposed rate hikes under a new three-year plan. Under the new proposal, New York City and Westchester County customers would see increases of 2.8% on the average electric ...

President Trump argued Monday that concerns over the rising cost of certain goods are being fueled by a Democratic “con job.” The president made the remark after being asked by Fox News host Laura ...

On a special episode (first released on Aug. 20, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Is there a way to reliably spot a con artist? Johnathan Walton says there is. He explains how in his new book, "Anatomy ...

Lucas was joined on stage by Guillermo del Toro and production designer Doug Chiang, with all three bolstering the case on how narrative art, which includes comic book art, needs to be uplifted and ...

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few? At the beginning of this year, Keir Starmer announced an “AI opportunities ...